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Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:31 am
by draringi
Would like to be able to edit a post without it disappearing while it awaits confirmation...
and yeah, I've got the required number of posts...
I thought phpbb was able to do this automatically?
EDIT: Thanks
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:39 am
by rpapo
draringi wrote:Would like to be able to edit a post without it disappearing while it awaits confirmation...
and yeah, I've got the required number of posts...
I thought phpbb was able to do this automatically?
It's not automatic. One of the managers for the Newly Registered Users group (me and Larethian, I believe) have to notice that your count has exceeded the minimum, and then remove you from that group. It is a manual process, entirely dependent on when we happen to notice. I check a couple of times a day.
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:08 pm
by Lery
It's strange, I would swear phpBB has an automatic ranking system...
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:17 pm
by rpapo
Lery wrote:It's strange, I would swear phpBB has an automatic ranking system...
Dunno. The proper person to ask about the details is The Big Boss (
thelastguardian). In any case, I stumbled upon another forum site with the same problems and described what I knew of the B-T solution to them, and they were able to stop their spam problems dead in their tracks.
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:23 pm
by Lery
Yeah.
I also had problems with spam. But I found a way out which is less a bother for the members, but may delete a few legit users.
(Users who have 0 post 10 days after activation are deleted ; being given that if someone is a bot and post a spam I've got Akismet to delete the post... So spam can't be posted and spam account are deleted. ^^ But I'm not sure if Akismet is fully compatible with phpBB, I know the extension was dropped a few month ago.)
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:06 am
by Darklor
rpapo wrote:
It's not automatic. One of the managers for the Newly Registered Users group (me and Larethian, I believe) have to notice that your count has exceeded the minimum, and then remove you from that group. It is a manual process, entirely dependent on when we happen to notice. I check a couple of times a day.
Are you sure? I thought its now automatic for the new users, and only for old users created before a certain date below 10 post it has to be done manually...
onizuka-gto wrote:Custom captcha question has been created for guests, so all guest are advised to be familiar with general Baka-Tsuki wiki and community.
Newly registered users have a 10 post limit under moderation queue, (10 post must be approved by Baka-Tsuki team) before being transferred with full standard forum access.
onizuka-gto wrote:Fixed.
Only found two user, who refuse to let go of the hot pink and migrate to the regular user group. Not sure why, so the only explanation is that they were the exception. That, or they really really liked it.
Edit: alright, found another one. guess there are more then two special hot pink users...
onizuka-gto wrote:aahhh, i know now why some are pink and some are not.
Those who joined before the new registration policy was put into effect but had less then 10 post, were manually put into the newly registration group by me.
However for some reason, these members after exceeding 10 post, still remain in the newly registered hot pink group and do not migrate into the registered group, simply because they were in that group already.
So, the only way i can resolve this, is that all those who have exceed 10 post, please make yourself known here, i will manually move you to your rightful place.
thank you.
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:08 am
by rpapo
Darklor wrote:rpapo wrote:
It's not automatic. One of the managers for the Newly Registered Users group (me and Larethian, I believe) have to notice that your count has exceeded the minimum, and then remove you from that group. It is a manual process, entirely dependent on when we happen to notice. I check a couple of times a day.
Are you sure? I thought its now automatic for the new users, and only for old users created before a certain date below 10 post it has to be done manually...
I check the list a couple of times a day. Most of the time I catch people when they reach 10 posts, though sometimes I catch them later if they made a flurry of posts.
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:00 pm
by ahmsab
Hallo guys , I know this is my first post. But I want someone to see if they can do something about me not being able to PM , because I want to start a translation project (and therefore PM an admin) .
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:19 pm
by Hiro Hayase
ahmsab wrote:Hallo guys , I know this is my first post. But I want someone to see if they can do something about me not being able to PM , because I want to start a translation project (and therefore PM an admin) .
As a I recall, you can't pm until you have 5 or 10 posts. I think it's 5 if my memory's correct. Can someone confirm this?
Wasn't it 10? - Misogi. Sorry, I thought that I made a new post.
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:43 pm
by ahmsab
aha , I'll keep on posting a bit then
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:01 pm
by Lery
To get depinkified, that's 10 posts ... and then a staff member has still to spot you and depinkify you
(As Bestnumber knows... cf. his sign)
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:31 am
by bestnumber?8721
... Thank u for mentioning my record
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:32 pm
by Lery
If you were to go more often go and
great the newcomers, you would have seen that I already did it loads of time
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 4:34 am
by bestnumber?8721
Awesome! Plus it still stands!
(haha cicada I still be holding my record)
Re: In light of the recent spam
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:04 pm
by Lery
Indeed... And you will certainly keep it a long time : the mod' are now more careful from what I saw, or there is some kind of an automated system, but I didn't see anyone with more than 10 posts which was still pink
BTW : aren't you just spamming in an antispam topic?
Okay, I must confess : I'm doing the same.